Laevinus

From Laevus (cognomen) +‎ -īnus (“-ine”, diminutive suffix) or directly from laevus (“left; clumsy; foolish; unlucky”) +‎ -īnus. Compare the similar cognomen pairs Paetus and Paetinus and Luscus and Luscinus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫae̯ˈwiː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [leˈviː.nus]

Laevīnus m sg (genitive Laevīnī); second declension

1. a cognomen used by the gens Valeria

   Marcus Valerius Laevinus

    

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Laevinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Laevinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.